BUCKHANNON – To boldly go. SpaceTrek, the program that encourages interstellar careers for girls and young women across Appalachia, is getting ready to gather for a second summer in West Virginia. The 2026 edition launches Sunday on the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College in ...
WVUToday.WVU.edu MORGANTOWN — Elementary school students in West Virginia and Pennsylvania will soon explore science through the lens of hockey thanks to a new partnership involving the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative and the STEAM Technical Assistance Center, housed in ...
WESTOVER – The Westwood Middle School Technology Student Association has the talent and the credentials required to participate in the 2026 National TSA Conference. They just need a little help getting there. The Technology Student Association is a national nonprofit career and ...
MORGANTOWN – Neil Armstrong had them locked in his orbit on that mellow July day in 1968 in the deep woods of West Virginia. The softspoken NASA astronaut told a group of bright high school students from across the nation just what he would be doing next year at this time, provided all ...
by Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer The melody of human progress up to the present has played on two grand instruments: science and the humanities. But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have been treated as separate entities, one concerned with the physical world and validated by ...
Questions linger about STEM academy On Feb. 13, I attended the Monongalia County Board of Education meeting that highlighted the benefits of the proposed Renaissance Academy (RA). I was excited and impressed about the future of Mon County career technical and STEM education. However, a few ...